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Fenton, Roger
English (1819-1869)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Study of mother and daughter mourning over deceased child
PUBLISHED TITLE: Scène de genre

1856-1857 / print 1857
salted paper print
31.2 x 27.2 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEGS: 35807 13985
81:1791:0004

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3036

Roger, Christiane & Trillat, J.J. & Prissette, J. --Les Tresors: Société Française de Photographie.-- Paris: Polaroid-France, 1979. unp.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Fictional Photographs", US, NY, Rochester August 10 - October 5, 1980.//

INSCRIPTION: verso -(in pencil) "next to projects"

NOTES: See 81:1282:1 for similar image, printed as photogalvanograph. Alternate title listed from "Les Tresors de la Société Francaise de Photographie", 1979 (n.p.). See John Hannavy, "Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall", p.70: "The pictures in preparation [in "Photographic Art Treasures"] included... Girlish Meditation... and Courting, signing and sealing, another image in the same vein as Hush, lightly tread". Catalogued 9/96, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
study
interior
portrait, female
artifact, mirror

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